Category: Health and Medicine

We think not as it would be the first ever recorded case in the history of the human race.. but then again our expert is from Louisiana !

Study Shows American Adults are Consuming Cannabis/Hemp Products to Reduce Use of Prescription Medications

Weed that can keep you slim- can it be?

“We couldn’t find a consistent strain, so we decided to start growing our own,” Rondeau explained. “We found that a strain that we named Pacific Blue that was very effective in helping me to manage migraines.”

The study also found that marijuana users seemed to gain less weight over time than non-users.

“Over a three-year period, all participants showed a weight increase, but interestingly, those who used marijuana had less of an increase compared to those that never used,” said Alshaarawy. “Our study builds on mounting evidence that this opposite effect occurs.” Reports Forbes

Exactly. Weed has many great uses we’ve always found it make appalling television programs tolerable and allows you to gently nod off during them.

A Bit of swearing helps too ! “On the way to the coffee shop there was this enormous bus stop, with a big, big portrait of Tom Brady, looking moodily down the street in his Ugg boots,” Brokaw recalled. “And I would walk by him, look at him and drop the ‘F word’ on him, just because it would give me a kind of a lift to keep on going.”

We’ve lost count how many times this story has been run this week. Here’s the Economist version of it hoping that it will be slightly more balanced than the rest and the actual report which, really, is the only thing you should be reading and then making your own mind up.

Here are their 5 reasons. Call us old fashioned but we like to chuff up an old fashioned spliff

The 70-year-old man decided to try edible marijuana to see if it would reduce the pain from his osteoarthritis and help him sleep. The man had smoked some marijuana in his youth, but had never tried an edible product, according to the report, which was published today (Feb. 11) in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

The result came as a big surprise to scientists measuring the sperm counts of more than 600 men from couples attending a fertility clinic. They expected cannabis to have a detrimental effect on sperm count and fertility. Instead, those participants who admitted ever taking the drug turned out to have higher sperm counts than non-users.

The trial will span 48 days and involve 150 patients from Vancouver, Abbotsford, Prince George, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto. The trial seeks to prove whether cannabis helps cancer symptoms such as pain, sleep loss, anxiety and nausea.